Germany explores 4-day workweek amid labor shortage - eviltoast
  • ISOmorph@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    Germany explores 4-day workweek amid shortage of labor willing top work for less than they’re worth

    FTFY

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      10 months ago

      Yep, Germany’s relatively strong economy the last few decades was in large part due to a rapidly growing cheap labor sector (also cheap Russian gas), which now leads to stagnation because most people have no money to spent anymore and the industry that refused to modernize is not internationally competitive anymore. That’s what more than 30 years of almost uninterrupted conservative leadership gets you.

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      10 months ago

      Working a day less would cost me maybe 400€ per month due to lower taxation, lower health insurance premiums etc. Working four hours less and stretching the other four across 4 days would cost me 200€. All in all, a low price for basically double the time to work on my own projects.